30. Dezember 2014
U S A
Artistic Gymnastics
Raisman Returns! - The 2012 Olympic champ talks London, comeback and more

Aly Raisman thinks about how she lost an Olympic all-around medal due to a tiebreaker “all the time” and uses it as motivation in her comeback. Raisman (20), finished tied for third with Russian Aliya Mustafina in the 2012 London Olympic all-around. Both scored 59.566. The tiebreaker meant subtracting each gymnast’s lowest score from the four apparatuses. That tiebreaker favored Mustafina, dropping Raisman to fourth. Raisman returned to a U.S. national team training camp in October for the first time in more than two...

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19. Dezember 2014
U S A
Artistic Gymnastics
Mary-Lou Retton and the 2015 AT&T American Cup

3rd World Cup of the Circuit 2014/15

<< Mary-Lou Retton is an American former gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won five medals, including gold in the individual all-around competition. Her performance made her one of the most popular athletes in the United States.

The USA Gymnastics Federation presents and publishes just now a video statement from her, speaking about the upcoming big international highlight in the next year, the 2015 "AT&T AMERICAN...

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19. Dezember 2014
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
21st Mikhail Voronin Cup 2014

The last International Artistic Gymnastics Tournament of the year, the 21st Mikhail Voronin Cup 2014, wrapped up in Moscow on December 17.
During the two days of the annual event, gymnasts including 87 men and 53 women competed for the medals.
Russia's Ekaterina KRAMARENKO won the all-around title with  a score of 55.650 points to take gold leaving Kristina Kruglikova with silver (52.850) and Anna Pavlova, who now competes for Azerbaijan, with bronze (51,700). Russia...

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15. Dezember 2014
Toyota-City, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
2014 Toyota Cup

At the 2014 Toyota International concluded Sunday in Toyota City Japanese gymnasts won eight of ten gold medals.

Winning four of six apparatus on men's side Japan dominated the international field: Kohei UCHIMURA marked the day's highest score of 15.925 on high bar and compatriot Yusuke Tanaka secured thereby having the same difficulty (7.2) and the final score 15.825 from a double victory for the hosts..
The two foreigners victories get to the vault world champion (2011 and...

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11. Dezember 2014
Wahington DC, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
US-President Obama received Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner in the White House

Nadia Comaneci met US-President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday, and then she posted a photo on her Facebook page: ”Great honor to be in the White House celebrating the Special Olympics  with Barack Obama,” wrote Nadia Comaneci at the picture she shakes hands with U.S. President. The legend of gymnastics was accompanied at the event hosted by the White House  by her husband Bart Conner, who in the same picture is seen in the background shaking hands...

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